On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:47:16PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Btw, I agree it is good to have a sleeping lock to protect cpu_online_map. > But it should be separate from workqueue_mutex, and it is not needed for > create/destroy/flush funcs.
Which is what lock_cpu_hotplug() attempted to provide but which has recd lot of flak in recent days. I guess if someone implements process freezer based locking of cpu_online_map, we will know better how suited later is for cpu hotplug. -- Regards, vatsa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
